Flint sit-down strike
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Sit-down strikers guarding window entrance to Fisher body plant number three. Photo by Sheldon Dick, 1937. | |||
| Date | December 30, 1936 – February 11, 1937 | ||
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| Resulted in | Recognition of the UAW | ||
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The 1936–1937 Flint sit-down strike, also known as the General Motors sit-down strike, or the great GM sit-down strike, was a sitdown strike at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, United States. It changed the United Automobile Workers (UAW) from a collection of isolated local unions on the fringes of the industry into a major labor union, and led to the unionization of the American automobile industry.
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